Forensic Files – Season 12 – Part 3/3 (2008)

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STORYLINE

Forensic Files is an American documentary-style series that reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and even outbreaks of illness. The show was originally broadcast on TLC, narrated by Peter Thomas, and produced by Medstar Television, in association with truTV Original Productions. It broadcast 400 episodes since its debut on TLC in 1996 as Medical Detectives. Reruns shown on HLN were initially retitled Mystery Detectives before settling with the main title of the show in 2014.

Episode 22: Brotherly Love

Episode 23: Disrobed

An Idaho couple are shot to death in their home and their teenage daughter escapes unharmed. But several pieces of evidence, including a bathrobe, lead police to wonder whether the girl was just lucky or knows more than she is telling them.

Episode 24: Driven to Silence

A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn’t match any of the suspects and, after the initial investigation, the case went cold for ten years. Then a witness who’d been silent for more than a decade decided to do the right thing.

Episode 26: About Face

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Episode 27: In the Bag

A 4-year-old finds his great-grandparents murdered. Investigators find a shotgun and plastic bag in a nearby river, and forensic analysts recover the serial number of the gun and also manage to get a fingerprint from a glove in the bag.

Episode 28: Yes, In Deed

In a tragic twist of fate, just days after a woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident. It was arson and murder. Investigators had to determine who wanted the woman dead… and why.

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Episode 29: Guarded Secrets

When a security guard disappeared from work without a trace, investigators couldn’t determine if he left willingly or if foul play was involved. But homicide was confirmed when the body was found 19 months later. Without any substantial evidence or leads the case went cold. 14 years later, a cold case investigator solved the case after finding crucial evidence hidden beneath the victim’s sole.

Episode 30: Smoking Out a Killer

When a young coed is raped and murdered in southern Illinois, suspicion immediately falls on a local man suspected of being a serial killer. When the serial killer is charged with other murders, but not the young woman’s, her case is left officially unsolved. After the serial killer dies in prison and DNA technology advances, investigators and the victim’s family are shocked to find out their assumptions were wrong – and that a determined detective will have to re-open a 20 year old case.

Featured Documentary

Given current events, any insight into the way in which Russia operates on the world stage is worth paying attention to, so the timing of Hunting the KGB Killers (Channel 4) feels apt. This is a rigorous and gripping documentary that tells the story of what happened to former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned with one million times the lethal dose of polonium in London in 2006. It is all but certain that the highest levels of Russian government were involved, according to the British courts, which makes this film as alarming as it is fascinating.